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It Happened Here
It Happened Here (IHH) is a weekly true crime podcast from Ready Freddie Productions, presented by South African journalist Kate Thompson Davy. The creators of IHH intend this to be a true crime podcast that centres victims and survivors, that peers into the psychology at play, and scratches that cr...
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The missing masterpiece: Pretoria Art Museum heist
It’s Sunday, 11 November 2012, when three people stroll into the Pretoria Art Museum on Wessels street in Pretoria, and stroll out again with six of S...
Love shouldn't hurt: The murder of Leighandre "Baby Lee" Jegels
August 30th 2019 was a regular day for Leighandre Jegels and her mom Ryta. The two were making their way to a boxing gym in East London, when a car st...
Friends, family & fraud: The death of Dustan Blom
It became known as the case of the body in the boot, abandoned in the parking lot of Montecasino, but there's a man behind that headline. In the wake...
Angels, demons, and thieves: the Mancoba Seven Angels massacre
It’s February 21st, 2018, just after midnight, when three vehicles pull up outside the Ngcobo police station. One of them is a police van, but the gun...
Song & dance: The murder of Taliep Petersen
This is the first episode of It Happened Here for 2022. In the spirit of the new year, I’m declaring this the start of a new season. Yes, the numberin...
Snake in the grass: The murder of Siam Lee
In January 2018, near New Hanover, a small burning patch of sugar cane caught the attention of a farmer out walking with his grandson. As he got close...
The night the music died: Nkululeko "Flabba" Habedi
The subject of today’s episode is Nkululeko Habedi – also known by his musical persona or nickname “Flabba.” Flabba’s case attracted a lot of media at...
Hijack or hit?: The murder of Anni Dewani
It’s the 2nd of March 2011 and, on the side of the road a middle-aged couple kneel in the sand, weeping. In front of them is a board hammered into the...
The axeman cometh: The crimes of Phindile Joseph Ntshongwana
IHHers, today’s case is an interesting one. Firstly, Phindile Joseph Ntshongwana was not an anonymous guy before these crimes put him in the papers. I...
Interview: National Sex Workers Movement in South Africa
While my current investigation/research is taking a bit longer than normal, here's an interview I did with Yonela Sinqu, the communications officer at...
The kidnapping of Baby Zephany
Zephany was born on 28 April 1997, in Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town. She’d been born via C-section, and so her mom was still recuperating in the...
Unnatural suspicions: The death of Patrick Maqubela
The President Hotel in Bantry Bay is a long way from the sweet and simple townhouses we’ve been lurking in recently. It has some 350 rooms and apartme...
Close to home: The abduction & murder of Jayde Panayiotou
Today we’re traveling to Gqeberha on the south east coast of South Africa, the perfect spot for a young couple like the Panayiotous. Jayde Panayiotou...
Unlocked & (maybe) unsolved: The murder of Inge Lotz
Back in 2005 the Shiraz complex in Stellenbosch had just been completed and the first set of tenants moved in, including 22-year-old student Inge Lotz...
Station Strangler stragglers: 2b or not to be
Yes, I know that is a truly awful joke. I’m not even sorry though. In this definitely-not-a-third-part episode, I want to pull a few loose threads th...
The Station Strangler (Pt2): Many more in store
This is part two of the Station Strangler. If you haven’t listened to part one, start there. Last week we covered a series of murders, from 1986 to 19...
Minisode update: Jason Rohde's appeal
I’m just jumping into your new episode feeds with a mini update. This refers to episode five – the killing of Susan Rohde in 2016, for which her husba...
The Station Strangler P1: "One of us"
The case of the Station Strangler unfolds at a critical and tense juncture of South African history. The majority of events here take place between 19...
The Devil in the ‘dorp: What Cecilia's Krugersdorp cult did next
This is part two of the Krugersdorp cult killings. At the centre of this is a woman called Cecilia Steyn who has created this epic backstory for herse...
Devil in the ‘dorp: The Krugersdorp cult killers
This is the story of eleven murders and six accused murderers. There are multiple methods of killing, multiple disposal MOs, a period of almost a deca...
Devil in the ‘dorp: “Samurai killer” Morne Harmse
It’s Monday morning August 18th, 2008 at a school in Krugersdorp. The bell has just rung for morning assembly so all the students are making their way...
Burial above ground: the Vlakfontein murders
Vlakfontein is the kind of place where you know your neighbours by name and by sight. But in October of 2018, no one had seen the Khoza family from 41...
Death en suite: Susan Rohde
It’s 2016, July 24th, and the receptionist on duty of Spier Hotel has just taken a call from a guest in need of a maintenance man. Spier is a four-sta...
Hate and homicide: The murder of Noxolo Nogwaza
Today I’m talking about hate crimes and homophobia in South Africa. For this episode, we are traveling to KwaThema, a township in Gauteng. There is el...
Minisode: Leigh Matthews killer wants parole
25 June 2021 - Earlier this week news broke that convicted murderer Donovan Moodley is applying for parole. Donovan was convicted for the kidnapping a...
The senseless death of Uyinene Mrwetyana, and the despair of a nation.
Uyinene – sometimes called Nene – was just 19 years old when she disappeared while out and about running errands, prompting a nationwide alarm and sea...
The short life and long legacy of Sheldean Human
This story is full of disturbing and mature material. It also deals with violence against children and sexual assault. So please bear that in mind bef...
The kidnapping and murder of Leigh Matthews
It’s the 21st of July 2004, Eliot Makhubela and his nephew Samuel were cutting grass in open patches of land near the village of Walkerville, South Af...